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Nome
Nome
Guinea Bissau, France, Portugal, Angola | 2023 | 118 min | Fiction
Director: Sana N'Hada
Screenplay: Olivier Marboeuf, Virgilio Almeida
Cinematography: João Ribeiro
Cast: Marcelino Antonio Ingira, Binete Undonque, Marta Dabo
Synopsis
In Nome, directed by Sana Na N’Hada, the veteran director from Guinea-Bissau revisits his youth years and the tumultuous fight against the Portuguese colonial army from 1969 to the mid-1970s. With a minimalist and stylized approach, the film is filled with lyrical beauty and spiritual mystery. The narrative begins in a village far from the armed conflict, where we observe the daily life of Nome, his mother, and the woman he loves. Nome leaves his home to join the guerrillas, becoming a heroic leader. However, the personal relationships he left behind return to haunt him during the complicated and confusing post-revolutionary period.
About the director
Filmmaker Sana Na N’Hada (1950, Guinea-Bissau) studied at the Cuba Institute of Cinematographic Arts and Industries. After returning to Guinea, he documented the war of independence. Subsequently, his cinema would be constructed in a back and forth between the memory of the Portuguese occupation, the struggles for independence and a meditation on the destruction of traditional societies in Guinea-Bissau – and with them, of an ecological model where man accepts the powers of a nature to which he knows he belongs.